Order in Council

Note

Changes authorised by subpart 2 of Part 2 of the Legislation Act 2012 have been made in this official reprint.

Note 4 at the end of this reprint provides a list of the amendments incorporated.

This order is administered by the Ministry of Justice.

Pursuant to section 266A of the Electoral Act 1993 and section 13 of the Interpretation Act 1999, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting on the advice and with the consent of the Executive Council and on the recommendation of the Minister of Justice, makes the following order.

Revocation

7 Electoral (Expenditure Limit) Order 2015 revoked

Explanatory note

This note is not part of the order, but is intended to indicate its general effect.

This order, which is deemed to have come into force on 1 July 2015, corrects errors in the expenditure limits in the Electoral Act 1993 (the Act). The expenditure limits are adjusted each year on 1 July to reflect the movement between the New Zealand Consumers Price Index (All Groups) (the CPI) for the quarter ending 31 March of the previous year and the CPI for the quarter ending 31 March of the current year. For the March 2014 quarter to the March 2015 quarter, the CPI movement was incorrectly recorded by Statistics New Zealand as approximately 0.0839%. It is now recorded as approximately 0.2517%. This order replaces the expenditure limits in the Act (which are based on a CPI movement of 0.0839%) with expenditure limits that reflect the correct CPI movement of 0.2517%.

The adjustments to the expenditure limits made by this order are as follows:

the amount of advertising expenses that may be incurred by an unregistered promoter in relation to election advertisements published during any regulated period is increased from $12,500 to $12,600 (section 204B(1)﻿(d) of the Act):

the total amount of election expenses that may be incurred by a candidate in respect of any regulated period,—

the total amount of election expenses that may be incurred by a party in respect of any regulated period, if the party is listed in the party vote part of the ballot paper issued for a general election,—

is unchanged at $26,100 for each electoral district contested by a candidate for the party (section 206C(1)﻿(b) of the Act):

the total amount of election expenses that may be incurred by a party in respect of any regulated period, if the party is not listed in the party vote part of the ballot paper issued for a general election, is unchanged at $26,100 for each electoral district contested by a candidate for the party (section 206C(2) of the Act):

the total amount of election expenses that may be incurred by a registered promoter in respect of any regulated period is unchanged at $313,000 (section 206V(1) of the Act).

In accordance with section 266A(4) of the Act, rounding to the next whole hundred dollars has been applied to the adjusted amounts as follows:

Reprints notes

1 General

This is a reprint of the Electoral (Expenditure Limit) Order (No 2) 2015 that incorporates all the amendments to that order as at the date of the last amendment to it.

2 Legal status

Reprints are presumed to correctly state, as at the date of the reprint, the law enacted by the principal enactment and by any amendments to that enactment. Section 18 of the Legislation Act 2012 provides that this reprint, published in electronic form, has the status of an official version under section 17 of that Act. A printed version of the reprint produced directly from this official electronic version also has official status.